Al-Husayn ibn al-Dahhak al-Khali'
الحسين بن الضحاك الخليع
c. 773 CE · c. 156 AH† – 864 CE · 251 AH †
† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.
A poet born and raised in Basra, of Khurasani origin, known as al-Khali' al-Ashqar.
At a glance
- Roles
- Poet
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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Life in time
Place in the story
- PoetTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
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People and things also explored
Ka'b ibn Zuhayr's pardon and recitation of Banat Su'ad· Khuza'a's appeal to Medina· The killing of Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf· Aban al-Lahiqi· Abbas ibn Mirdas al-Sulami· Abd al-Ghaffar al-Akhras· Abd al-Qadir al-Baghdadi· Abd al-Rahman al-Tha'alibi
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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islam.museum contributors. “Al-Husayn ibn al-Dahhak al-Khali'”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-husayn-ibn-al-dahhak-al-khali/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-13.